This little coffee script will watch Wikipedia for edits from a set of named IP ranges and will tweet when it notices one. It was inspired by @parliamentedits and is used to make the @congressedits feed available.

If you are curious the default IP ranges for the US Congress in the config.json.template file came from GovTrack. You can learn more about the significance of Congressional edits to Wikipedia here and here.

To run anon you will need to:

1. install Node
2. npm install -g coffee-script
3. git clone https://github.com/edsu/anon.git
4. cd anon
5. cp config.json.template config.json
6. add twitter credentials for your bot to config.json
7. add IP ranges/names to config.json
8. ./anon.coffee
9. have some ☕ and wait

You may notice in the example config.json.template that you can configure ip address ranges using a netmask:

  "143.231.0.0/16"

or with an array of start/end IP addresses:

["143.231.0.0", "143.231.255.255"]

These two are equivalent, but the former is a bit faster, and easier to read The latter is convenient if your range is difficult to express using a netmask.

If you would like to test without tweeting you can run anon with the --noop flag, which will cause the tweet to be written to the console but not actually sent to Twitter.

./anon.coffee --noop

By default anon will look for a config.json file in your current working directory. If you would like to specify the location of the configuration file use the --config parameter:

./anon.coffee --config test.config

There is not much to anon but there is a small test suite, which might come in handy if you want to add functionality.

npm test

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